Individual mandates were an essential ingredient of that strategy.
Kennedy's biographer, Theodore C. Sorenson, said Kennedy always maintained that mandates were illusory.
These countries were not colonies; the mandates were supposed to be temporary.
In Thailand and the Philippines the election winners were incumbents, but their overwhelming mandates were unprecedented.
The chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Willam Schaffner, said that when mandates were in place, racial and economic disparities in who was vaccinated virtually disappeared.
Either way, ordinary workers, whom health mandates were designed to help, will suffer.A modest proposalRather than imposing rules, it would be better to stimulate competition.
Under that accord, major industrialized nations agreed to meet targets for reducing emissions, but mandates were not imposed on developing countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa.
If a future upheaval in the Persian Gulf caused a sudden drop in oil supplies, consumers would still have to adjust to higher gas prices, regardless of what fuel taxes or mileage mandates were in place.
In fact, many argued, among them Governor Ridge, that it was disingenuous for Democrats to accuse a Republican administration of failing to pay for federal mandates when many of the underfinanced mandates were imposed while Democrats were in charge.
Mr Bongo, 57, may have tried to project the image of a younger leader, but his repressive methods are fast placing him in the same category as other strongmen who hang on to power as if mandates were for life.
And many, including Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, noted that these new mandates were being presented by Mr. Thompson, who as governor of Wisconsin was a firm advocate of giving states maximum flexibility.
